The headquarters of Kids Wish Network is in a low slung set  of buildings north of Tampa.   The green awning carrying the logo of Kids Wish is small and almost impossible to see from the busy road that leads to the parking lot.  But the charity itself isn't small in the least.  Over the past decade, tax records show it's been highly successful.     Add up the money received for the past ten years and more than $127 million has been donated.  But those same records also show that $109 million of that has been paid right back to the paid telemarketers who raised it.

Kids Wish Network was the subject a months long investigation published in June by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Tampa Bay Times.  CNN joined that investigation as it was nearing its conclusion.  That investigation labeled Kids Wish as America's "worst" charity and from the available evidence, it's not hard to see why.

CNN's Drew Griffin talked to three ex employees of Kids Wish—two who didn't want their names or identities disclosed.  And one who did.   The one who told us her story on the record is a woman named Meanda DuBay, who worked for the charity as something called a "wish coordinator" for about six months from mid-2011 until January 3, 2012 when she was fired.    She was fired, she says, because she took her concerns and complaint about Kids Wish to the charity's board of directors.  Meanda DuBay was fired, he says, about 45 minutes after hitting "send" on emails to board members outlining her assertions.

Kids Wish Network has filed a civil defamation lawsuit against her but along with that, convinced the FBI to raid her house, confiscate her computers and conduct a full blown investigation for several  months, all based on the charity's claim that Mrs. DuBay stole confidential electronic information.  The FBI ended its investigation with no charges filed and returned all of the seized computers belonging to her and her husband.